• Hydrogel uses sunlight to harvest fresh water from the sea
    In many arid coastal regions, a great quantity of valuable fresh water is lost into the atmosphere every day, as it evaporates from the surface of the ocean. This situation prompted scientists to create a new hydrogel that's highly effe......
    lchaoxu 写于2019.08.13
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  • Artificial “muscles” achieve powerful pulling force
    As a cucumber plant grows, it sprouts tightly coiled tendrils that seek out supports in order ......
    lchaoxu 写于2019.08.13
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  • ACS Nano:声悬浮液滴表面的纳米颗粒自组装
  • 蜘蛛如何「御电而行」?
    1832年,达尔文正在「小猎犬号」上担任博物学家。一日,他在甲板上发现了件怪事——一夜之间,甲板上多了上千只小红蜘蛛。...
    lchaoxu 写于2019.09.06
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  • A multifunctional shape-morphing elastomer with liquid metal inclusions
    Natural soft tissue achieves a rich variety of functionality through a hierarchy of molecular, microscale, and mesoscale structures and ordering. Inspired by such architectures, we introduce a soft, multifunctional composite capable of a uni......
    lchaoxu 写于2019.10.16
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  • Self-Sterilizing Laser-Induced Graphene Bacterial Air Filter
    Nosocomial infections transmitted through airborne, droplet, aerosol, and particulate-transported modes pose substantial infection risks to patients and healthcare employees. In this study, we demonstrate a self-cleaning filter comprised of ......
    lchaoxu 写于2019.10.16
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  • Electrochemically reconfigurable architected materials
    Architected materials can actively respond to external stimuli—such as mechanical forces, hydration and magnetic fields—by changing their geometries and thereby achieve novel functionalities. Such transformations are usually binary and volat......
    lchaoxu 写于2019.10.21
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  • A battery with a twist
    Markus Niederberger’s team of researchers at ETH has used stretchable materials to develop a battery that can be bent, stretched and twisted. For applications in bendable electronic devices, this is precisely the kind of battery ......
    lchaoxu 写于2019.10.21
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